Re: Basque, where did they come from?

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On 12 Aug 1995 thedavid@clark.net wrote:

> Bryan Cowan (loquismo@aimnet.com) wrote:
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> : As I understand it, the Basque language is in a different language family
> : (I once read it was a *Na-Dene* language or something like that).
> ^^^^^^^^^^
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> To me the Dene people are the "Navajo." Very curious...Explain? I'm lost!
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> David
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I don't believe that it was a Na-Dene language as that was native to
North America, along with Amerind and some other language. The language
that the Basque speak is supposedly of the same language family as
Sumerian and Etruscan which I think was comtemporary with Na-Dene and
Indo-European.

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